Top Draws in 2015
By averaging 9,428 fans per home date, the Charlotte Knights atBB&T Ballpark were the top drawing team in all of minor league baseball. The Knights were also #1 in Triple-A, while the Frisco RoughRiders at Dr Pepper Ballpark averaged 6,918 to be the top drawing Double-A team. At the Single-A level, the Dayton Dragons' average of 8,212 at Fifth Third Field was easily the best for the classification. For short-season teams, the 6,234 average drawn by the Brooklyn Cyclones at MCU Park lead the way.

The Box Office Busts of 2015
The smallest typical crowd at a minor league ballpark was 637, which is what the short-season Bristol Pirates averaged at DeVault Memorial Stadium. For teams that play a full season of games, the Class A Bakersfield Blaze claimed the bottom spot by averaging 740 at Sam Lynn Ballpark. At the Double-A classification, the Mobile BayBears, with 1,553 at Hank Aaron Stadium, had the worst average. The smallest average crowd at the Triple-A level was the 3,803 of the Syracuse Chiefs at NBT Bank Stadium.

Being Average
The average number of tickets sold per minor league game in 2015 was 4,063. The closest a team came to that number was the New Britain Rock Cats, who averaged 4,051 in their final season at New Britain Stadium.

22 Got 'Em All In
Depending on league and level, teams have between 34 and 72 home games scheduled per season. Here's the games-by-league breakdown, with the teams listed in brackets having made it through their 2015 season with no home postponements, and thus no lost gates:

Minor League Baseball Attendance in 2015

Regular season attendance for the 160 teams playing in the 14 minor leagues affiliated with major league baseball and based in the USA was 38,690,622 in 2015, when there were 9,523 game dates.

Listed on this page by league are the home attendance figures for all teams, which are sorted by highest to lowest average attendance within their respective leagues. As has long been custom, the numbers are based on tickets sold, so no-shows (unused tickets) are included in a team's attendance total and average.

Note that due to weather, not all teams have the same amount of home "dates," a category that is used instead of "games" since most teams are forced to play a varying number of single-admission doubleheaders to make up for games postponed by rain, etc. Doubleheaders count as one date because one ticket is sold for both games. Hence the number of dates, which is what average attendance is based on, is usually less than the number of home games played. In 2015 just 13.75% of teams had no postponements at home, and for only those 22 teams did dates equal games played.

All attendance totals and dates are from league websites. Ballpark information is from the Baseball Pilgrimages-compiled 2015 Ballpark Directory.

Triple-AInternational League6,961,610 tickets sold by 14 teams for 976 games (7,133 average)

Most teams play all of their home games in one ballpark, but there are annual and yearly exceptions. In 2015, the Biloxi Shuckers were forced to play their first 25 home games away from Biloxi due to construction delays at their new ballpark, and Huntsville's Joe Davis Stadium hosted 15 of them. The games in Huntsville, which included two doubleheaders, drew a total of a mere 4,192 paying customers to watch the Shuckers, who relocated to Biloxi from Huntsville after playing at Joe Davis Stadium from 1985-2014. Additional home games for Biloxi were played in Jacksonville (13,055 fans in 4 dates) and Pearl, MS (10,567 for 5 dates). As for their true home dates, the Shuckers had 41 of them at MGM Park, drawing 136,262 and averaging 3,323. Meanwhile, as has been the case since 1996, the Birmingham Barons played one game at Rickwood Field, their home ballpark from 1910-1987, while the Brevard County Manatees played one home game at Holman Stadium in Vero Beach (the Jackie Robinson Celebration Game) for the second straight season. Tickets sold for those games contributed to each team's overall home attendance figures.